School safety window film for districts & campuses

The storm broke every window. The filmed ones stayed closed.

A windstorm lifted rock ballast off a Godley ISD roof and threw it through the glass below. The entry and lower windows Epic had filmed shattered — and stayed in their frames. The unfilmed windows blew out.

With the glass already broken, the district did what most people only talk about: it had its own police officers attempt a forced entry through the filmed openings, and Epic demonstrated the attachment alongside them. They went at the broken, filmed glass with tools and weapons. The district’s own words, in the letter it wrote afterward: “we observed a significant delay in forced entry.” Their conclusion, in their words: that level of protection “reinforces our confidence” — and the storm had already shown that the glass stays in the frame. Godley ISD’s signed reference letter is on the References page.

Security film does not make glass unbreakable or bullet-resistant. Attached to the frame, it keeps broken glass in the opening, making it more difficult for an intruder to break in.

Frost it, number it, brand it — without touching the security film.

Every building that installs security film asks the same question a week later: now how do we put the room numbers back? Or the privacy band, the visitor decal, the mascot? The industry answer is "you can't" — anything stuck to security film pulls at it when it comes off, and a lifted edge is a warranty problem. Epic worked out a better answer.

We print and apply a second, film-safe layer on top of the installed security film: a custom-printed frost or privacy band, a printed graphic, door and classroom numbers, security and visitor decals, logos, hours — on a removable-adhesive PET film Epic developed for exactly this. It bonds to the security film without affecting it, holds up to daily use, and when the room changes or the sign is retired it peels off clean — no residue, no lifted edge, the security film underneath exactly as we left it, and Epic stands behind the layer and its removal. It is cut on Epic Precision, printed at VisuFlare and installed by the same crews that installed the security film.

• Frost or privacy band over security film on offices, conference rooms and classroom doors
• Door and classroom numbering and wayfinding, cut to the district's standard
• Security, visitor and compliance decals that can be updated without re-filming the glass
• Printed graphics and branding — mascots, color bands, logos — on secured glass
• Removable: changes and renewals are a quick visit, not a film replacement

How it started. A county government building in Albuquerque, New Mexico needed 3M security film on its street-level glass for forced-entry and blast mitigation — and the workstations behind that glass carried sensitive information on their screens, in full view of the sidewalk. Film alone solves one problem and leaves the other. Epic installed 3M S2400 with the Epic Method, then a custom-printed frost band over it at screen height: privacy from the street, daylight above and below, and a layer that lifts off clean if the floor plan ever changes. The same process has since numbered every classroom window and entry across a Colorado school district, over the security film — double-sided numbers that read from the corridor and from the parking lot, the district’s security decals in the entry glass, and reusable holders on the same media so a school can post a flyer on the glass for a day, a week or a month, take it down and use the holder again.

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